Psalms 81:3
Judge the orphan and poor: + 81:3 Gr. justify. do justice to the low and needy. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
In Context
2How long will you⌃ judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause. 1
4Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 23:24Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you⌃ shall have a rest, a memorial of trumpets: it shall be to you a holy convocation.
Numbers 15:3and you will offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, a whole burnt offering or a meat-offering to + 15:3 Gr. magnify. perform a vow, or a free-will offering, or to offer in your feasts a sacrifice of sweet savor to the Lord, whether of the herd or the flock:
Deuteronomy 16:15Seven days shall you keep a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God shall choose for himself; and if the Lord your God shall bless you in all your fruits, and in every work of your hands, then you shall rejoice.
1 Chronicles 15:16And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.
1 Chronicles 15:24And Somnia, and Josaphat, and Nathanael, and Amasai, and Zacharia, and Banaea, and Eliezer, the priests, were sounding with trumpets before the ark of God: and Abdedom and Jeia were doorkeepers of the ark of God.
1 Chronicles 16:42And with them there were trumpets and cymbals to sound aloud, and musical instruments for the songs of God: and the sons of Idithun were at the gate.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:2-8
An Invitation to Praise. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the… Read the whole commentary →